Welcome back to Answers of the Day — our daily Jalopnik feature where we take the best ten responses from the previous day's Question of the Day and shine it up to show off. It's by you and for you, the Jalopnik readers. Enjoy!

You would think it would be easy. Set up some kind of ramp (perhaps made out of a hill, or a log and a few planks of plywood) and then mash the gas pedal. Oh no, it's not so simple.

Advertisement

You see, not only do you have to get into the air; you have to come down at some point. This is called a landing and enterprising hoons typically get it wrong. You don't want too much speed or too much air if you don't have a ramp or some snow to take your fall. Otherwise the car is nose-diving into something very hard, or you're going to endo.

So which terrible failed car jumps did we forget? Let us know in Kinja below.

7.) High-Speed Camaro Crash

Railroad crossings seem like such a good place to jump your car. The approach is long and smooth, so you can get big speed, like this Camaro SS. However, judging by the way this Camaro wrecks itself, big speed isn't really a good thing.

3.) Mid-Air Endo

having seen so many videos, by now you should be an expert in car jump technique. Certainly you'll know that there's such a thing as too much speed and too much air, as this end-over-end crash demonstrates.

1.) Ken Powers Disintegrates Over The St. Lawrence

Kenny Powers' magnificent failure to jump the St. Lawrence back in 1976 almost wins both our ‘best' and ‘worst' car jump videos at the same time. Even when you disintegrate mid-air in a rocket-powered Lincoln, you win on style points.